Sorry I'm not bandwagoning. Him being typecasted and taking those roles because they make money and are usually successful doesn't make him a bad actor. It actually makes him a good at that very specific role and him being flexible enough to pull off great performances in Definitely Maybe, The Nines, Buried, the Proposal, Mississippi Grind, The Voices and Adventureland shows that is usually not his performance, but the script that you don't like. He's been real good in a lot of things, but you can't blame him for taking the money for the roles that get him the fame to keep doing work.
I think he's a decent actor and works well if a director can restrain his worst acting intentions. But as a comedic actor, he has no range. It's all a "Ain't I a stinker?"/winking to the camera type shtick that he's been doing since "Van Wilder." It's perfect for Deadpool, if you're into that kind of humor. But I've grown very tired of it.
Saying he’s been typecasted and only does that kind of humor for money goes completely against the general understanding that he pushed to get Deadpool made for years and that that is very much his kind of humor.
I liked Ryan Reynolds in The Amityville Horror, but I was 16 and in love with my high school gf when I saw it so this may be misguided...
Remember when Jared Leto gained a ton of weight to play Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955), an American criminal who shot and killedJohn Lennon, formerly of the Beatles, outside Lennon's residence at the Dakota apartment building in Manhattan on December 8, 1980. Chapman fired five shots at Lennon with a Charter Arms.38 specialrevolver, hitting him four times in the back. For the next few minutes, Chapman remained at the scene reading J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye until he was arrested by the police. He planned to cite the novel as his manifesto. And no one saw the movie